On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:22:54PM +0000, Cliff Hones wrote: >Volker Quetschke wrote: >> I noticed the following behaviour: (found by my favorite testcase ;) ) >> >> $ rm -rf foo* ; touch foo.exe >> >> $ test -e foo && echo found foo >> found foo >> >> $ test -e foo.exe && echo found foo.exe >> found foo.exe >> >> Hmm, how can I test if foo exists without also looking at foo.exe? >> Does this count as a bug in test? >> >> My current workaround is >> >> $ find . -maxdepth 1 -name foo -exec echo _XfoundX_ \; | grep _XfoundX_ > >> /dev/null && echo found foo >> >> but that is a bit ugly. > >Much simpler than that: > > test -e foo. && echo found foo. > >The trailing dot excludes the .exe magic and is ignored on translation >to windows filename.
...except on managed mounts, IIRC. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
